Had to format my hard drive (no backup) - what happens to iPhone mp3s?

I had a problem with my laptop, and needed to format the hard drive and re-installed XP, iTunes, and everything else. Without any backups, I lost all my mp3s on the computer. They are now only inside my iPhone. I heard there really isn't an easy way to transfer mp3s from an iPhone to a computer. Does that mean all the songs in my phone are now "stuck" there? After all I can't 1) transfer them back to my computer, and 2) I'm not aware of a way to "delete" songs directly from the phone. The re-installed iTunes software doesn't "see" individual songs in my phone anymore - it only detects the amounts of space occupied by music.
If I start transferring songs again from my computer to the phone with iTunes, are my current songs in the phone going to be overwritten?

If you connect to your reformatted computer and sync, all the iTunes media content (music, videos, apps, photos) on the phone will be deleted. _The iPhone is not a backup device_ and you should always back up your internal HDD to an external HDD!!!
Having said that, you can get help from 3rd party software like THIS.

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